I moved down to Fishguard with my wife, Bee, in January 2025.  We had previously been running our own event catering business in Salisbury for 14 years Bread and Flowers.  The business was focussed on large scale weddings, and we were catering up to three a week during the season. So whilst rewarding, challenging and great fun, it was also punishing and at times, exhausting.

Still passionate about cooking and food, I am now focusing on smaller scale events.  I love cooking for foodies or just people who love their food.  I am comfortable cooking British, both modern and traditional, alongside French, Spanish, Italian, Middle Eastern, Indian and Asian.  I like a challenge and don’t shy away from cooking client’s own recipes.  Since coming to live in Pembrokeshire I have started a new business called The Constant Cook, introducing visitors and locals to the wonderful, locally sourced produce that Pembrokeshire has to offer.

I’ve worked alongside some great chefs over the years, Gill Meller, Sam & Sam Clark, Nathan Outlaw, Ravinder Boghal, Sumaya Usmani, Romy Gill, Akemi Yokoyama, Olia Hercules, Diana Henry and Matthew Pennington and I’ve been equally inspired by the cookbooks of Tom Aitkens, Tom Kerridge, Momofuku, Jose Pizarro, Nieves Barragan Mohacho, River Café, Samin Nosrat, Lucas Hollweg and a whole lot more.

I am a self-taught cook and haven’t worked in a restaurant or pub kitchen environment ever, so I have no experience of that level of adrenaline and no desire to embark on that particular journey.  I do have 50 years’ experience cooking, with 14 years as head chef of my own company cooking professionally and leading a team of six chefs at times. I aim for authenticity and tend to prefer food that is off beat, unusual and challenging.

The most people I’ve cooked for at one sitting is 1000 guests for the Facebook, London Office, summer party, but I did drag in the BBQ chefs from Jamie Oliver’s Barbacoa restaurant to help out.  I have cooked for 3500 guests over 4 days at the Somersault Festival in North Devon.  Conversely, I have cooked intimate dinners for Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Radnor and the 18th Earl of Pembroke.

Prior to Bread and Flowers, I set up and ran, with two friends from Art School, a textile and fashion company, ‘Georgina von Etzdorf’ 1981 – 2006.  A career which culminated in a major 25th anniversary retrospective exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery.  We have samples of our work in the V&A London and the Smithsonian Institute in New York.  I was the sales and marketing director and grew the company from a small, tabletop craft operation, to a £6million, international, award winning fashion and textile business, selling to over 400 top end retail clients in 25 countries worldwide.

Prior to that, I spent two and a half years travelling round the world, Europe, Africa, India, Nepal, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, America, following three years at Camberwell School of Art studying Textile Design.

I was involved in education for twenty years, running projects with undergraduate design student around the country, secondary school students in South London and the shires, and primary school students in my local village.  My last educational post was Professor of Design Research at Southampton University 2000 – 2003.

I write regularly on the Scribehound Food platform, about any number of food related observations and have written previously for Wiltshire Living magazine and the Salisbury Journal.  My history is Sport, Art, Design, Textiles, Fashion, Education, Food, Travel, Music, Poetry and Dance.  Plus, I’m a demon with a spreadsheet.